Word: landed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...busy countryside as II Duce kept a weather eye on the vital 5,400,000-hectare wheat harvest now in full swing. High winds, heavy rains and floods in May kept the wheat crop close to last year's figure of 293,600,000 bushels though 4% more land was seeded. Quality was poor, too, and favorable weather would be needed even to equal official forecasts. Though in southern Italy recovery from rain and rust was quick, around Bologna 75% of the wheat was so dashed that machines could not be used and peasants were bringing out their sickles...
...result is skimpy where Hollywood has done little prospecting (Colonial days), rich where Hollywood has found the pickings good (Reconstruction, World War, etc.), authentic chiefly when the newsreel camera has the screen. More reliable as a history of Hollywood enterprise than as history straight, Land of Liberty recalls the cinema great from Griffith (America) to Disney (Building a Building), not forgetting Mae West (Belle of the Nineties) or the MARCH OF TIME. It opens with Roosevelt II rededicating the Statue of Liberty, scurries back 400 years to show why the early colonists left Europe, hits the high spots from then...
...York World's Fair, Land of Liberty plays daily at the Federal Building; at San Francisco's, in the California Building. No competition for such Fair attractions as Treasure Island's Dnude Ranch or Flushing's Sun Worshippers, Land of Liberty is worth sitting through, if only for the kick of watching Liberty marching to Hollywood's double-quick tune...
...tobacco dynasty, got small Methodist Trinity College to move to Durham from a North Carolina village in 1892 by giving it $85,000, made it co-educational five years later by giving $100,000 more. When, in 1924, Buck Duke made little Trinity the tenth richest university in the land (endowment today: $30,000,000), it was glad not only to take his name but also to let him reshape it to his heart's desire...
...Straits closed in 1914 which Eng land wants kept open in war time...